On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@yakaz.com> wrote: > Hello, > ... > Which leads me to my question: why Cassandra doesn't allow to set a TTL for > data ? Is it for technical reason ? For philosophical reason ? Or just nobody > had needed it sufficiently to write it ?
I would think you could consider parallels between why Oracle or BDBs do not have TTLs. My personal opinion is that this is because TTLs imply temporary (transient non-peristent) storing of things, and this is quite different from core functionality that Cassandra offers. Rather, memcached, or other caching systems would be more obvious choice. -+ Tatu +-
